So, now Monk/Dragoon have to compete with yet another class?

[Keres]

DEX is ranged damage. STR is melee damage. Unless NIN is a purely ranged job, which it isn't, then it will be STR based.

There's nothing stopping SE from making Rogue/Ninja's melee damage scale with DEX. Lots of other games do it that way without issue: WoW, Dungeons and Dragons, etc. "Damage scales with STR for these classes, and scales with DEX for these other classes."

It'd really only necessitate a change to the tooltip text to indicate that fact. In addition, it'd provide some (needed) balance to the loot competition between STR and DEX drops.